Word: bourbon
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Going Cheap in the Big Easy. The Astor Crowne Plaza has crisp white duvets and midweek rates (Sunday through Thursday) of $79, and weekend rates for $89, through Sept. 3. The hotel is located near New Orleans' French Quarter. 739 Canal St., at Bourbon Street, New Orleans...
...Most of the works are from the ever-expanding collection of owners Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown, a scion of Brown-Forman Corp., which started bottling Kentucky bourbon and is now one of the world's biggest liquor conglomerates. "The owners' mission is to make art accessible," says William Morrow, the museum's curator. "It's amazing how many audiences there are for a project like this." Temporary exhibits change about every six months; now running (through June) is Constant World, an installation by Brooklyn-based artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, which combines sculpture, electronics and video...
...cigarette-free after three months. But the balance of evidence so far suggests that while trying to quit one drug by taking another may be useful, you don't get something for nothing. Swallowing a pill is better than poisoning your lungs with smoke or pickling your liver with bourbon, but you shouldn't fool yourself into thinking the pill can't harm...
...innocence.As Joon experiences increasingly disturbing events the deeper she delves into street life, Mun details graphic descriptions of drug abuse, crime, self-mutilation, and abusive relationships in an eerily dispassionate tone. She moves through varying degrees of misfortune with a businesslike lack of emotion—a methamphetamine and bourbon-induced haze is described with the same clarity as a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. Joon herself eventually acknowledges this discrepancy in storytelling; “Who knew where or when this was,” she wonders, as her junkie roommate tries to convince her to perform an abortion on herself...
...with melted cheese). One of the city's favorite new places is the year-old Supper (www.supperphilly.com), where transplanted New Yorker Mitch Prensky offers up a menu featuring broccoli tastier than any kid could imagine (it's frittered with parmesan and bacon) and a luxurious financier pastry spiked with bourbon. The slow-roasted pork belly - served with spiced yams, pineapple mustard and greens - is a best seller. "Traditional, but re-imagined," Prensky says of the dish. "There are so many things happening - and it's awesome." That's a pretty good description of Philadelphia today...